With the launch of EOS just around the corner, we wanted to release the current iteration of our EOS light
wallet into the world.

It was recently discussed in some articles, such as EOS Is Coming, If Anyone Can Figure Out How to Vote, that there is a big gap between the current release of software and the ability of the masses to get involved and actually use it. This highlights the issue of accessibility, since it is currently necessary to have an advanced understanding of EOS in order to be able to perform simple tasks such as voting for block producers.

Our mission at Greymass is to build tools to help everyone understand and use EOS, and further, bring this ease-of-use to the masses. We are proud to present the first of our planned EOS tools: an EOS Voting desktop application. Eventually this open source software will act as the foundation for our full GUI Light Wallet, which will have many other useful tools for EOS stakeholders -- but in the meantime, we wanted to get it in the hands of users for launch. Currently, it allows you to stake your EOS and vote for producers, which is the most important facet of securely launching and approving the main EOS network.

A Note on Security

It goes without saying that in the cryptocurrency world, security (specifically of your private keys) is a primary concern.

Since our voting tool is a standalone application, your keys will never leave your computer. Your keys (if you choose to store them), are encrypted with AES-256 encryption and stored on your own device. Operations are only signed locally, never externally. The only connection that the application makes is to your desired API node -- one that you choose yourself. This is a far more secure solution than voting through a website interface.

EOS Block Producer Voting & Wallet

eos-voter is a limited-functionality release of an open-source light wallet that is being designed for the EOS blockchain. This application can be used to connect to a remote EOS API endpoint to perform producer voting actions and a few basic wallet commands.

Features

CPU/Bandwidth Staking: Stake your EOS as either Bandwidth or CPU. This grants rights to resource usage on the network, in addition to the combined amount staked conveying weight while voting for block producers.

Block Producer Voting: Select which block producers to support and cast your vote. Please note that the block producer voting UI is not a research tool; it is a simple interface that provides a secure way to vote.

Local Wallet: Set a password while importing your private key to create a local wallet. Your key will be encrypted locally using this password. This password will be required each time you need to unlock the wallet.

Temporary Usage: If you prefer not store your keys within the application, simply choose not to set a password. When the application quits, your key will be forgotten.

Security: Private Keys

When using eos-voter, all transactions are signed within the application and your key is never transmitted. If a local wallet password is specified, the application will also save and encrypt your key for future use, using AES-256 encryption.

Get eos-voter

Download the Latest Release

The latest release will always be available on the releases page of this repository:

Running Development Mode

Tutorial: How To Use the Voting Tool

Step 1: Connect to an API node

The first page you you will see when opening the app is a splash page that asks you for an API node. You can insert any trusted community API node here, or even use your own node if you have one.

For launch, Greymass will be hosting the API node https://eos.greymass.com, which you will be able to use here right away.

Note: eos.greymass.com will point to the main network when it comes online. If you want to test things on the Jungle testnet, you can connect to http://eos.jesta.us/.

Step 2: Input Your Credentials

Next up, you will need to input your credentials: specifically, your account name and your private key. Don’t know your account name? No problem, the app can look it up for you!

(Optional) Step 3: Save Your Encrypted Credentials

Once you have input your account name and private key, you can choose to have them saved and encrypted to your device so that you don’t have to re-enter them later. The next time you unlock your wallet, it will be ready to go! But if you don’t want to do this, no worries -- you’ll still be able to use your wallet by inputting your credentials at the beginning of each session.

(Optional) Step 4: Stake Some EOS

When the main network is launched, you may need to stake some of your EOS in order to vote for producers. To do this, head over to the Wallet tab and choose an amount of EOS to stake.

Note: the main network will have staked the majority of your EOS. You will likely not want to stake anything more!

Note: the combined amount of staked EOS across CPU and Bandwidth will determine the weight of your vote(s).

Step 5: Vote for Some Producers

Now you’re ready to vote for Block Producers. Head back to the Voting page, and select your favourite producers here.

(Optional) Step 6: Check out our Splash Page

You’re done! If you like, you can click on our logo in the top right corner. On this splash page, you’ll find more info about this tool, and about our organization.

If you like this application, don’t forget to vote for us as one of your selected, trusted Block Producers -- we’ll let you know our Block Producer name when the mainnet launches!

Credits

The development of this application is being led by members of the Greymass team in an effort to connect EOS with its stakeholders.
Everything is open source; we encourage the community to help contribute!

The are @crigmarlo and @nice-steemer. Their steemd lists say that all they do is downvote people and their blogs are full of resteems. I got downvotes from both of these accounts on an 18-day-old post so I think they may be connected.

This is fantastic, very easy to use and I like the smooth polished look of the UI! I've already used it to practice voting on the Jungle testnet. It's quite reassuring to see that my EOS was converted correctly from the ERC20 snapshot. Gives me peace of mind before the mainnet launch.

If anyone wants to try it out, feel free to connect using our BuildTeam test node on the Jungle testnet: http://51.15.227.98:8888

Im sorry im being of topic but i dont know how to contact you any other way. I just have one question.
Do you think that there is any way that some kind of addon could be created for Steem, maybe an addon for Google chrome, Mozzila etc... That would create a filtered tab on the Steemit interface which would filter out all the Upvote bought posts and leave up only those that gained upvotes organically.. A way to filter out posts with upvotes from Booster, Minnowbooster, buildawhale etc...
Could this be done?

I don't see how that's a logical conclusion. The only way it does is if you assume that 100% of my effort is put into Steem development, 24/7/365. It's not, and that's never been the case. I go 100% at a project when I'm on it, but it's not every day.

Honestly of all people - I figured you'd be excited to see technologies advancing and be able to see through all the drama.

LOL, I think that is what we called evolution my friend. As long as they are still functional as Steem witness and still doing their job, I don't see anything wrong with it. It happens all the time even in major corporations.✌

The governance systems between Steem and EOS are similar. They have a set of block producers that are elected by the community to serve the network in producing blocks (and whatever else they may add value with to advance it's goals). It's also in the same "family" of blockchains, so the software is pretty similar. That's why it was fairly easy to just replicate code that looks very similar to other apps I've built.

That's where the similarities end for the most part though.

Steem is a content platform with a social rewards currency attached to it. It will (hopefully) soon have SMTs which will basically be a turn-key solution that allows people to easily deploy their own tokens and power their own social network with those rewards.

EOS on the other hand is a general purpose computing platform. It acts as a giant computer of sorts (like ETH or NEO), allowing anyone with staked tokens to build and/or run decentralized applications. All of the concept type applications you see happening within the ETH token world are similar to what EOS will be able to do.

Probably more than you asked for - but others may have the same sort of question.

Thanks for the response! That is exactly what I was looking for, actually; you see, I'm trying to figure out how to dedicate the extra resources I have on some of my offsite servers. I want to run a Steem witness, just because, but now looks like I ought to go get something to do with Eos as well, doesn't it? What to do, is the big question; mining Eos is probably too difficult at the moment.

Becoming a Steem witness is difficult in my opinion. Not only you need a considerable stake, you will also need to be actively involved in the community in order to get noticed by the members. Creating useful Steem apps and post what you are doing is way people will find your name.

EOS is an enterprise-grade blockchain. Multiply your stake and effort into two or more, and you have an idea how to be elected as EOS BP.😇

I just tested this a bit, and by going from 5 producer votes on one of the testnets up to 20 producer votes, the value of the original 5 didn't change. So it seems that they are unused votes, not divided up based on the number you vote for.

Great tutorial but being honest, this is a reason why mainstream adoption will take time to grow. The ability for many individuals to understand these processes without making a mistake or falling into a scam along the way makes the experience difficult and will lead to many not participating in the process which I personally find gratifying.

Brian and I tried several voting apps the other day. Greymass was the easiest and most visibly pleasing. We are doing a video soon on voting and we intend to demonstrate this tool. Great job Greymass! Clay Albright - EOS USA